Menomena's new record, Mines, comes out July 27th on Barsuk. Check out a track from it - the sax dirge "Five Little Rooms" - posted above. The Portland band has a big tour of North America planned for this fall. That includes an October 1st show at NYC's Webster Hall. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon.

Menomena has a previously unreleased song featured on a compilation put together by PDX Pop Now!, a non-profit that hosts an annual fest of the same name (running July 30th-Aug 1st this year). Also on the disc are Blitzen Trapper, Talkdemonic, Hockey, Laura Veirs, Talk Talk and more. Check out three of the songs above: A Weather's introspective duet, AgesandAges's poppy group-sing, Nick Jaina's energetic orchestral pop, and the underground hip-hop opening track by Tope & Epp ft. Illmaculate. Full tracklist is below.

Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie were really good albums. Got them when they came out, still throw them on at times and think they're great. It saddens me when I hear bands from that era when I was a teenager and hear their new stuff and it's so clear how they've lost it, they sound desperate to recapture a sound/magic that they haven't had in 15 years (holy shit).... And then I realize that is not unlike a lot of us.